When Allison Jacks and her sisters were in elementary school, their father Rickey took them to softball camp.

"Daddy, it's too hot out here," the girls said. "Can we go to the gym?"

So they went inside and lived in the gym.

Rickey couldn't run the floor like he used to in his playing days. Instead, he just hung out around the perimeter, shooting 3-pointers.

Young Allison began competing with her father, attempting trick shots and testing the limits of her range. They would play horse and Allison began making shots from farther and farther away.

This is how Allison, a senior at Lumberton, became the new Texas high school girls basketball record holder for made 3-pointers.

"It's not like I try to break the record every game," Allison said. "I just let it come naturally. It's the main thing that my dad has worked with me on."

Entering Friday's game against Orangefield, the senior guard was one 3-point shot away from the record, sitting at No.419. With 6:20 left in the first quarter of an eventual 66-35 Lumberton win, Allison fired No.420.

"I knew I had to make one," she said. "I think that's why I was a little off at first."

The key to Allison's success (she made at least 100 threes in her first three years of varsity basketball according to Rickey) is rooted with Rickey, who has been her coach at Vidor and now Lumberton.

His style of play is unmistakable on the court. You know when you're watching a Rickey Jacks team.

"I want to shoot the ball before we turn it over," he said.

Rickey tells his squad that they are guaranteed to miss every shot they don't take. When he says "pull!" from the bench, it is an instant reaction for his players to launch the ball.

"If they think about whether they should shoot or not, they're going to likely miss," Rickey said.

As an extension of her dad on the court, nobody understands this better than Allison. She is now chasing the national record of 500 career 3-pointers set by Ashley Wirtzberger of Arizona, who set the record playing from 2007-10, according to the National Federation of State High School Federations.

Allison was given the game ball following the win, Friday at Silsbee.

The Silsbee principal asked her to sign it and said he wants to say he knew her before she became famous.

Allison said she wants to play college basketball and is still waiting on her first scholarship offer.

For Rickey, it's tough to balance the dad and coach side of things. He's proud of Allison, but knows he can't show any favoritism in front of the rest of the Lady Raiders.

"The dad side of me is inside," Rickey said. "I'll tell her things at home, but not on the court. She knows. It's a bond we have with each other. We do a handshake before games and give each other a good-luck kiss on the cheek."

He was extra careful to keep the pride inside when Allison received the game ball - so much so that he wasn't even smiling, at least on the outside.